Sunday, April 22, 2012

Changing the default SSH port number and not allowing root logins on Debian.

The Secure Shell Protocol (OpenSSH is a FREE version of SSH) by default uses port 22. Changing the default SSH port will stop many automated
attacks and make it harder to guess which port SSH is accessible from.

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